Here’s another one of those popular sayings that I just don’t get. In fact, I completely disagree with it, and I’ll tell you why.I think desperate measures are what create desperate times in the first place. I don’t know about you, but I’ve never made a single decision that I didn’t live to regret when I was feeling desperate. All my best decisions have been made when I was calm and relaxed.Another reason I have a problem with the saying is this--how can time be desperate? Time doesn’t even have feelings. That makes this saying linguistically incorrect, because it’s never times that are desperate, but periods of time in which people are desperate.Desperate measures usually result in dangerous situations, like when you find yourself skidding on ice and have a desperate impulse to jerk the steering wheel or slam on the brakes.The only good thing I can find about this saying is that I think it would be a good idea if everyone asked themselves “Have I done anything to contribute to making anyone feel desperate today?”. The news is full of desperate people taking desperate measures, but it usually doesn’t mention the people who are making them desperate. In fact, those people are profiting from desperation as they pit one group of desperate people against another so they’ll be too busy fighting each other to recognize who’s really responsible for their desperation.Sometimes people get so desperate that they start revolutions . Sadly, thus far, revolutions have only succeeded in elevating different people to the same thrones. Personally, I think the American Revolution was for nothing. It didn’t result in freedom because the same system of private land ownership and forced servitude to landowners in exchange for the right to occupy space was brought from England to America.Really, only the names of landowners, backed by soldiers, who instituted their own taxation without representation changed. Most, if not all, thrones are now occupied by those chosen to represent the interests of, and provide labor for, the 1% who control the natural resources. It is in their interests that we all remain desperate and continue making bad decisions based on that desperation.Desperate people can only change their circumstances by taking calm and logical measures. Let's start doing that instead of what we're told.